just using your own damn product is so incredibly important. embarrassing secret is that this is more rare than assumed.

One of the good/bad things to happen in Silicon Valley circa 2015 was that we got a folks coming into the ecosystem who were smart generalists who would otherwise have gone into finance, consulting, PE etc. They came to join later-stage companies, start companies and (of course)

Random $18b industry that an LLM wrapper disrupts in a week wsj.com/business/nestl…

every day i wake up and pray to be as clever as Matrix Funds XI & XII XI: Flock, Fivetran, Flex Finance, Steadily, Anumana XII: Sesame, Suno, General Med, Rainforest, Salient, Baselane while staying 1) quiet, 2) mid-sized, & 3) price-sensitive. the VC purist's absolute dream